HMS Jupiter (1895)

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Career

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Launched:	November 18, 1895
Commissioned:	August 1905
Status:	Scrapped, 1920
General Characteristics
Displacement:	14,900 tons
Length:	421 feet
Beam:	75 feet
Speed:	16.5 knots
Complement:	757
Armament:	4 × 12 in guns 12 × 6 in guns 16 × 12 pdr guns 12 × 3 pdr guns 5 torpedo tubes

HMS Jupiter was a Majestic-class pre-Dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy launched on November 18, 1895. She was completed on February 11, 1897, and commissioned in August 1905. She became part of the Home Fleet in 1908.

In 1909–1910 she was refitted with fire control equipment, and stationed as a gunnery training ship at the Nore; in January of 1913 she became part of the Third Fleet. On the outbreak of the First World War, she became a guard ship at the Humber as part of the 7th Battle Squadron.

In 1915 she was sent to Archangel as an icebreaker, arriving in February - the earliest a ship had arrived at the port. After returning to the Channel Fleet later in the year, she served in the Mediterranean before being turned into an accommodation ship in 1918.

She was scrapped in 1920.

See HMS Jupiter for other ships of the name.